Return to MILK!

One of the most misunderstood and misused metaphors used by a lot of well-intentioned Christians is the metaphor of "solid food vs milk".

I am not going to go into the fact that solid food is NOT more complex theological studies--but rather a life changed by the gospel and shaped by obedience (happy to talk in person to anyone about that!)

Rather the focus of this post is to call us back to GOOD MILK!  In the mix of Christians talking about wanting "solid food", "milk" has gotten a bad rap...However listen to what Peter says to a group of Christians:

"DESIRE the unadulterated spiritual MILK..." (1 Peter 2:2)

What is this milk?  It's Jesus Himself!

"...coming to Him, a living stone..."  (1 Peter 2:4)

Peter's point to a people who are already saved, and increasing in knowledge and holy living is that they should never give up their infant like dependency on the pure milk of Jesus...for Peter says it is by this milk that we "may grow by it in salvation" (2:2b)

So what's my point...why I am I bothering posting this?

Somehow, somewhere along the line a lot of Christians (myself included) fall into a peculiar trap--we start to act as if we must do more for God and prove ourselves "mature" and worthy of "solid food", and we view the simple, pure, unadulterated intimacy that we have with Jesus through the gospel as "beneath us"...or at least, in our past as we have moved on to "deeper things"!

Here is the problem -- without ongoing, continual intimacy with Jesus, we cannot and will not accomplish anything worthy of being called glorifying to Him...we will pile up "good works" that are nothing but "filthy rags" in His sight (google "Isaiah filthy rags and good works" if this reference doesn't make sense to you!)

So if you are like me, and all too often have started trying to pull up your boot straps to "do more for God"...I invite you to STOP and come back like an infant who longs for pure milk -- come back and enjoy "your first love" (see Revelation 2:4) ... You are never "too mature" or beyond the pure, unadulterated spiritual milk of intimacy with Jesus -- it is GOOD and we are meant to ALWAYS drink of it (Him) -- for He is Living Water (or milk if you will!) and true life is only found as we drink deep of HIM!

If you struggle to find this kind of intimacy -- you are not alone -- don't over complicate your approach to Jesus -- He is not needing you to prove anything, but only to seek Him!  (I'd love to talk in person to anyone wanting to discover more about what ongoing intimacy with Jesus looks like -- you can walk alongside with me as I discover it more and more for myself!)